Blood transaminase elevation with pegylated interferon alfa 2b plus ribavirin in an HIV/HCV coinfected haemophilic patient.
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E Guitton
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[Socioeconomical status, health behaviors and health status of French adolescents: Health Behavior in School-aged Children (HBSC) survey].
BACKGROUND: The impact of living conditions on health is not well known, but health inequalities observed in adults seem partly determined by behaviours and health status at an earlier stage, and more particularly during adolescence. So, our aim was to study adolescents' health and their health behaviours function to family socioeconomic status. METHODS: We analysed French data from the international survey "Health Behavior in School-aged Children" carried out in a representative sample of adolescents aged 13 and 15 years in 1998. A self-administered questionnaire was completed by the adolescents who answered questions concerning their health, health behaviours, and their families' socio-economic status. RESULTS: Adolescents from blue-collar families were more numerous to report to be in "fairly good health" or "not very good health" (OR = 1.40, CI 95% = 1.12-1.74) and to be overweight or obese (OR = 1.85, CI 95% = 1.25-2.24) than those from executive families. They were also more numerous to have bad health behaviours than those from executive families. CONCLUSION: This study has established that, in adolescents, differences in health, health behaviours, types of consumption and physical activities depended on the families' socio-economic status.
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New staining methods for sperm evaluation estimated by microscopy and flow cytometry.
New staining methods and automated instruments are now available to evaluate the sperm cell in vitro. Individual compartments of the sperm cell, such as the nucleus and the plasma and acrosomal membranes, may be investigated, as well as the cell function as shown by mitochondria activity and capacitation. Various probes are used and they can be analyzed by direct light or fluorescent microscopy or by flow cytometry. The automated instruments allow objective and accurate analysis and quantification as well as the ability to evaluate large population of cells in a shorter time, thus providing accurate evaluation of sperm quality. However, before these test can be recommended for routine clinical and investigational use, in the stallion, they need to be confirmed on a larger number of stallions and their correlation with traditional semen parameters and with stallion fertility has to be demonstrated.
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